jouet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,183
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jouet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet qui sert à amuser les enfants. Pronounced \ʒwɛ\. It ranks #9,183 in French word frequency. Often confused with jour and just.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jouet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jouet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,183 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for jouet, with forms such as "jjouet", "joeut", and "jouett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jour", "just", "joug", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is jouet, spelled J-O-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet qui sert à amuser les enfants.
- 2Objet à fonction érotique destiné à provoquer le plaisir.
- 3Objet qui sert à amuser les animaux domestiques.
- 4De manière plus général, objet que l’on manipule sans règle imposée, pour le seul plaisir, par opposition à un jeu qui fait lui intervenir des règles.
- 5Celui, celle dont on se joue ou une chose dont on s’amuse ou dont on semble s’amuser.
- 6Plaque en métal que l’on fixe sur les côtés du sep de drisse de manière à éviter les frottements dues au poulies.
- 7Petite chaîne que l’on accroche à la brisure du canon qui forme l’embouchure dans le mors d’un cheval.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjouet,joeut,jouett,juoet,ojuet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jouet
Misspelling Variants of "jouet"
Frequency rank: #9,183 in French
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